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The National Day of Reason Is Approaching
Set your watches, peoplesfaces readers: The National Day of Reason is on its way and it will arrive on Thursday, May 2. You’ll wish to set aside any zany beliefs, ideas, manias, and follies and prepare...
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TIL: Blunderbuss Has Two Definitions!
I’d always understood that a blunderbuss was an old-fashioned musket, a short rifle with a flared muzzle. So recently when I was reading a book on economics and the author used blunderbuss to refer to...
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A Different Sky Above Us
There was a popular video a few years ago that showed what the Earth would look like if had rings like Saturn. Stills from that video were … soothing. There’s something calming and wonderful about...
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Everyday Art
I wish I had a father like Richard Laferriere when I was growing up. Wait, I think my own father was the best in the world. But I wish every kid had someone at home who customized their sandwich bag...
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The Tall Tom Cruise
I watched Oblivion the other day and didn’t like it at all. Maybe the universe was trying to tell me it was time to show how relatively short (5’7″) Cruise is and how movie studios have always filmed...
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Bra Washing
This post is interesting to me apart from the content in the video above. I love issues surrounding sex-role differences, and learning that (some) men are upset that women don’t wash their bras as...
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Speaking of Bras …
When I saw this 1968 promotional flyer for Planet of the Apes, I misread the main headline to mean a big capture of women’s breasts had taken place. See my movie list • my book list • my event list
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Speaking of (Base)Balls …
This is kind of cool: A woman takes a photo of herself high in the stands at Boston’s Fenway Park, during the Red Sox’s batting practice, and only later discovers that a long, high fly ball narrowly...
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Cargo Plane Crash Caught on Car Webcam
This footage is incredible. It seems rare that a plane crash is actually caught on film. A driver in Bagram, Afghanistan witnessed a National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 freighter taking off from Bagram...
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The Walnut Episode Redux
Yay! I was just reading an article on Boing Boing about a Look magazine photograph taken behind the scenes of The Dick Van Dyke Show. The Boing Boing piece makes a reference to the show’s famous Walnut...
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The History of Aspect Ratio
I love the nuts and bolts of movie production. I just came across a great video that discusses the history of aspect ratio in movies. Aspect ratio is the dimension of the viewing area of a film,...
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It’s Gonna Be Hot Today
Seattle has been hot lately. Yesterday it reached 93, and today the forecast is for 95! I’m getting ready to play pickleball outside. It should be nice right now. 9:00 p.m. update: It did reach 95....
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Saving the Shoe
This is pretty cool. A team of skydivers are parachuting (para-gliding?) toward the ground when the videographer notices one of them has lost a shoe. He goes after it. I wonder how his teammates felt...
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Leg Art
I came across a Japanese “Tattoo Stockings” page during my morning surf. I like the cleverness of tattoo art that you can simply slip on and slip off. I’ve seen plenty of arm sleeves for tattoos, but...
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“You Can See Sauron Now”
I had a great dream last night. I dreamed I was working at a company in downtown Seattle that had been bought out by Sauron and was now doing work for the Dark Lord. I was an engineer of some kind, and...
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Such Things As Dreams: “Moving” Video by Travis
I don’t know the band Travis from a blister on my toe, but I love their approach to their latest music video. They incorporate a cold night, warm breath, and images projected onto their exhalations: As...
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The Savannah Is Just a Synecdoche
Steven Pinker uses synecdoche in a sentence! It’s the first time I’ve heard anyone use the word in ordinary speech. It’s from a Pinker comment on a WEIT post (I’ve bolded the key phrase): The savannah...
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Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
I love this song by Steve Martin, Graham Sharp, and Woody Platt. It’s performed by Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers. Martin uses humor and good will to introduce the idea that atheism is safe and...
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Journalist Films Own Death?
How do I feel about this? How should I feel? In the clip below, a photojournalist for an Egyptian newspaper is filming a protest in Cairo. Soldiers are firing on protesters when one soldier turns his...
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The New Yorker’s Answer to Elaine
These New Yorker cartoons are wonderful. So is cartoon editor Bob Mankoff’s concise explanations for why each one is a winner. I’m including a couple of my favorites below, but be sure to go to the...
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